Modern and Contemporary
The Cantor Arts Center devotes several galleries as well as outdoor space to modern and contemporary art. Strengths include early 20th-century sculpture, Bay Area art, prints published by Gemini G.E.L., the well-known Los Angeles workshop, and assemblage.
Among the early 20th-century sculptures are works by Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Elie Nadelman, and Theodore Roszak. The Cantor Arts Center's collection of contemporary art focuses on American art, especially by Bay Area artists such as Robert Arneson, William Theo Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Richard Diebenkorn, George Herms, Frank Lobdell, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Wayne Thiebaud, and Paul Wonner. Over the next 20 years, a gift from the Marmor Foundation will include prints by major artists such as Sam Francis, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, and sculptures by Joseph Cornell and Ed Kienholz.
Hilarie Faberman
Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
